I'm encountering some troubles while playing .avi files with vlc.Coming from Ubuntu 7.10, I migrated recently to way faster Vector linux 5.9 std gold and the sole problem i get concerned this multimedia decoding.I tried to play avi files, that played like a charm under ubuntu and VLC 0.8.6, on vector linux and VLC 0.8.6 (vl 5.9 package) and i just get sound and no videos.Problem is that Mplayer and Xine do not play this files either (but in ubuntu they did).

No suggestions, but it looks like something may be wrong with our ffmpeg version then, since all 3 of these players use ffmpeg to decode. There's probably support for a particular codec missing. Can you try the following on one of the files that doesn't work for you:

Code:

ffplay (filename) -stats

and post the "Stream" info in the output? Should look something like this:

VLC media player 0.8.6d Janus[00000275] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID'.VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.[00000254] main playlist: stopping playback

It appers so that problem comes from a missing xvid codec, but xvid is installed ( xvidcore 1.1.3-i586-2vl59)